WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) presented by Colin Loretz at OC WordCamp 2010 on April 24th, 2010.

1. WordPress as a
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

2. WordPress is a
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

3. Quick Background
Who the hell is this guy?

4. Myths
WP as a CMS

5. What it looks like
• The creative is important

6. Scalability
• Content Delivery Networks
• Batcache, WP-Super-Cache
• Minify files

7. Security
• Benefit of large user base
• Problems get solved fast
• Tricks to lock down your install
• Move wp-config
• Use secret keys
• Don’t use ‘admin’ or ‘wp_'

8. So why
would we use WP

9. It’s not a
silver bullet

10. Assessment
• What kind of content?
• What needs to change?
• Can special functionality be
covered with existing plugins?
• Is there anything out there that is
built specifically to achieve what
you’re building?

11. WordPress 3.0
• Menu management
• Custom post types
• Custom taxonomies
• Multi-site

12. The Design
• If you can write it in HTML/CSS, it
can be built on WordPress
• The sky is the limit

13. The Design

14. The Design

15. Custom Templates
• Category
• Page
• Single Post

16. MVP
codex.wordpress.org
THE CODEX

17. Functions.php
function ocwordcamp_feature()
{
....
}
<?php ocwordcamp_feature(); ?>

18. An Example
www.nevadasagebrush.com

24. Getting your
hands dirty
WordPress is a CMS

25. Rebranding

30. WP List Pages

31. More WP List
Pages

32. Custom Page Templates

33. Forms

34. Multimedia

35. Using Child Pages

36. Custom Queries
Custom query
& using custom fields
Custom page query
Custom post
category queries

37. Custom Widgets

38. Existing Plugins

39. Custom Functionality

40. Custom Functionality

41. Custom Functionality

42. A few other things
you can do to get the most of WordPress

43. A Few Plugins
• PageMash - Page management
• Magic Fields - custom post types (pre-3.0)
• BuddyPress - social networking

44. This only scratches
the surface

45. Questions?

46. Thank You
@colinloretz
www.colinloretz.com